One would think that this assignment would be a very easy one. However, when you think of the space-related movies released during the last ten years it is harder than one would think to find one that is based on true and accurate events. Movies like Independence Day Resurgence, Interstellar, or the new Guardians of the Galaxy look at possible future scenarios of alien encounters and alien worlds. I have chosen a movie documentary, The Last Man on the Moon, which was released on June 8, 2014 and was based on a book written by Astronaut Eugene Cernan. He was commander of Apollo 17, the last mission to the moon in December 1972 and was one of only three men to fly to the moon twice (Lewis). In this documentary, he shares all his dreams, accomplishments, …show more content…
As a child, I remember major news events such as this were viewed in real time in class rooms all over our country. I can remember sitting in my classroom imagining what it would be like to venture to the moon and back. I tell my four granddaughters all the time that “I love them to the moon and back” because I grew up during the moon exploration era and to me it always seemed so far away. We know now about all the far away galaxies and star systems and to me it seems as if we have given up on moon exploration which is very sad. I think it is equally sad that our government has reduced NASA funding over the years and that the dream former astronauts like Cernan had for children seem less likely to happen. In my opinion, if we could back off technology such as the internet, social media, and the sports and entertainment industries and spend more money on space travel and exploration, our children might get back their imaginations and gain back desires to explore the universe starting with our own moon. “Gene's footprints remain on the moon, and his achievements are imprinted in our hearts and memories. His drive to explore and do great things for his country is summed up in his own words: “We truly are in an age of challenge. With that challenge comes opportunity. The sky is no longer the limit. The word impossible no longer belongs in our vocabulary. We have proved that we can do whatever we have the resolve to do. The limit to our reach is our own complacency”
Soon after launch on January 28th, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart and shattered the nation. The tragedy was on the hearts and minds of the nation and President Ronald Reagan. President Reagan addressed the county, commemorating the men and woman whose lives were lost and offering hope to Americans and future exploration. Reagan begins his speech by getting on the same level as the audience by showing empathy and attempting to remind us that this was the job of the crew. He proceeds with using his credibility to promise future space travel. Ultimately, his attempt to appeal to the audience’s emotions made his argument much stronger. Reagan effectively addresses the public about the tragedy while comforting, acknowledging, honoring and motivating his audience all in an effort to move the mood from grief to hope for future exploration.
While Nixon did allow Kennedy’s dream of a moon landing to become reality in 1969, he soon after put limits on the space program, which had more symbolic value than anything else. The space program was a new-liberal hallmark of the “we can do it all” philosophy of the reaching of new heights in a promising future that promised a “new frontier” (Lecture 25, November 19). Cutting back on this program was a supreme indication that no, we couldn’t “do it all”.... ... middle of paper ... ...
... “of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to earth” The space program fascinates the American people. In the early 1960s whenever space flights were launched during school hours students would gather in gyms and auditoriums to watch the lift offs on television. The race to the moon continued through the 1960s. It is one of the nations single most expensive projects of the decade, costing $56 billion.
Ron Howard’s re-creation of the happenings aboard NASA’s Apollo 13 flight combined some of the biggest talent in Hollywood to produce a masterful film. Apollo 13 takes us back in time, to the late 1960’s and early 70’s, when America’s NASA space program was thriving and the world stood aside to see who would reach the moon first. The impacts of space program are still evident to this day. It is even said that by beating the Russians to the moon, we established ourselves are the top power in the world and propelled ourselves to the status we hold today. While today our space program flounders in the public eye, this movie illustrates a time when NASA’s successes and failures held a huge sociological impact on American and even international life.
America went to the moon in the 1960’s, during a time of war, a time that was so far behind in technology compared to now, but yet human beings went to the moon . Human beings are capable of many wonderful things and their potential has no limits, except for the limits that are placed by government and society. Neil deGrasse Tyson attempted to liberate NASA from the limits of low funding by giving a speech to the U.S Senate. Tyson used emotion and logical thinking to make the complexity of NASA as relatable to the audience as possible, and by doing so he wanted to convey to them how important NASA is in our society today and the future of the human kind.
Humanity was not meant to be cut from the same cloth, instead we made a combination to become a great mosaic. The novel Indian Horse, written by Richard Wagamese, takes the reader through the systemic stripping of Indigenous sovereignty in mid 20th century Ontario. This is done through the perspective of Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibwe boy, 8 years old. Saul lives with his wise grandmother and frequently dysfunctional parents, haunted by the loss of their other children. All will change, much will be lost when Saul is forced to attend St. Jerome’s residential school.
On the 12th of September 1962, U.S. President John F. Kennedy presented his address "We choose to go to the Moon" to appease and inform his citizens of America’s space efforts to land man on the moon and return him safely to its shores. His eighteen-minute speech, which was delivered in Texas, became a turning point for the United States of America in the “race for space”, as his intention to further the space program was supported by his citizens.
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. This speech was in support of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's program to land humans on the Moon. The audience pertains to the people in attendance and the public figures that may be looking to donate. Kennedy in his speech details the importance of funding this program through process analysis, logic, ethics, and emotion supported by the use of comparing and contrasting. To begin, Kennedy opens up his address by explaining the human discoveries from the time it was able to be recorded over a 50,000 year span.
On September 12, 1962, the President John F. Kennedy delivers a speech about why he supports NASA's mission to land humans on the moon he uses emotions, logical reasons, religious, good stories. In President Kennedy's speech, he uses emotions to bring his audience attention and to convey the excitement and wonder of space exploration. Kennedy describes the space of human progress as "breathtaking," which creates a wandering thought in the audience's heads. He speaks of the "open vistas of space" which promise rewards tapping into the adventurous spirit of exploring space. This emotional appeal encourages the audience to support NASA's mission and embrace the opportunity.
History is the detailed study of past events, particularly in human affairs. As these events connect to something or someone, the story of what happened gets passed down through generations or through what historians have figured out in their careers. However, to inform and also entertain the average person, Hollywood manipulates history in a way so that every bit of tension is dramatic and appeals to the greater truths of past events. Director Ron Howard released a movie in 1995 that told the story of the seventh manned space mission that was supposed to be the third to land on the moon, known as Apollo 13. What is considered to be the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) “successful failure”, Apollo 13 is an event in history
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Carl Sagan once said “every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring—not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive. If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.” The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, is executing Sagan’s words every day. President Dwight D. Eisenhower created NASA in 1958 with the purpose of peaceful rather than military space exploration and research to contribute to society. Just 11 years after the creation, NASA put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon, the first humans to accomplish this feat.
Traditional ideations of film and documentaries have been to create scripts that are structures to fulfill a set idea. The challenge with scripting an idea is that the script writer(s) have a subjective view of the documentary. The vastness of documenting a situation is restricted by the script making it impossible for a documentary film to capture objective realism in their work.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was July 20 1969, the day that reshaped our nation and gave us unparalleled dreams for the future. The impact of the day goes far beyond our pride and nationalism; that day would change space exploration and technology forever. Just like a shooting star, that day would give us a glimpse of hope. A chance to see an event so breathtaking and defying, it would be man’s greatest accomplishment in the 20th century. As millions of people watched from their TV sets, a rush of euphoria came over the nation as Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the surface of the moon. It was the first time in the history of mankind that we would step on the surface of another celestial body. John F. Kennedy dared us to dream, he inspired the nation to reach for the moon, to set ourselves apart from the rest of the world. The Space Race was symbolic of many things. Our future as the technically dominate nation was secured in place; just as secure as Old Glory would be, when she was driven down into the soil of the moon. We not only reached the moon, we conquered it as a nation; united.
In the past 100 years, we have made much advancement in all areas of society. The way people live has changed drastically just in the past century. Technology in particular has advanced more in these last 100 years then all previous time combined. For example, because of the research done by many innovative and dedicated individuals such as the Wright Brothers who were the first to sustain flight in a powered airplane, we are able to fly all over the world in a matter of hours in jet propelled pressurized aircraft. One hundred years ago, the thought of man flying in a machine was insane. The Wright Brothers helped to realize the dream of manned flight. Many years later, after the idea of manned flight becoming a reality, space exploration was the next step. In 1969, many people did not believe what happened. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon. They posted an American flag, explored, collected space rocks and came back home. Many Americans did not believe that the technology existed to go that far. Today, several missions a year are launched using manned space shuttles that can be flown back to earth like gliders and reused on future space missions.